Equator 🌐 (Nostalgica)

Equator is a 1.20.1 vanilla-friendly world generation datapack that refreshes the Minecraft Overworld without completely changing its identity.

It focuses on making the world feel richer, greener and slightly more nostalgic, with larger vanilla-style trees, denser vegetation and more varied terrain. The goal is to make exploration feel fresh while still looking unmistakably like Minecraft.

🌳 Larger & More Varied Trees

Equator expands several vanilla tree types with larger and more interesting variants.

Included tree changes cover:

• Oak
• Birch
• Spruce
• Jungle
• Mangrove
• Cherry
• Acacia

Forests feel denser and more impressive while still using normal Minecraft blocks and a familiar vanilla style.

🌱 Denser Grass

Grass and fern generation has been increased and adjusted across the Overworld.

This gives plains, forests and other green biomes a much fuller appearance and helps make the world feel less empty.

⛰️ Improved Overworld Terrain

Equator also modifies Overworld terrain generation, creating more interesting hills, valleys and landscapes while keeping the overall vanilla character.

The terrain changes work together with the larger trees and increased vegetation to give the world a slightly old-school, nostalgic exploration feeling without trying to directly recreate Minecraft Alpha or Beta terrain.

🪨 Stone Generation

The pack also includes several andesite, diorite and granite placement definitions from Terralith: ReStoned.

These mostly preserve vanilla-style stone generation and can help restore those settings when another datapack modifies them.

✨ Vanilla Friendly

Equator is a normal Minecraft datapack.

• No client mod required
• No resource pack required
• No Terralith required
• No Lithostitched required
• Works in single-player and on servers

🎮 Version

Minecraft: Java Edition 1.20.1

Equator currently targets datapack format 15 and does not officially claim compatibility with newer Minecraft versions.

📦 Installation

New World

Add the ZIP through the Data Packs menu while creating your world and enable it before generating the world.

Existing World / Server

Place the ZIP inside:

world/datapacks

Then restart the world or server.

For the most consistent terrain generation, using Equator when creating a new world is recommended.

Existing chunks will not be regenerated.

⚠️ Compatibility

Only use one version of Equator at a time.

Other world generation datapacks that modify the same Minecraft features may override parts of Equator depending on datapack loading order.

❤️ Credits

Equator combines and adapts inspirations from:

• Better Trees
• More Grass
• Rexle's Better Overworld
• Terralith: ReStoned

The original projects and authors retain their respective licenses and ownership.